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Recent Examples of smallholding
Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf.
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Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025
According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool.
—Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters.
—Time, 5 Apr. 2018
Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025
According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool.
—Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters.
—Time, 5 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smallholding
Noun
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Rather than eliminate the property tax owed on homesteads destroyed by fires that homeowners asked for, the legislature passed a bill that provides a temporary exemption for homeowners to not pay property taxes on a home that no longer exists.—
Bethany Blankley,
The Washington Examiner,
19 July 2025
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They’ll be forced to farm their own food, support and maintain their homesteads, and live together in one-room cabins without running water, electricity, or caffeine (this is the cruelest part).—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Keep scrolling to see even more farmhouse decor my Southern mom is a fan of at Wayfair.—
Shea Simmons,
Southern Living,
24 July 2025
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The blue-tiled tea house is modeled after a traditional Japanese farmhouse.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
23 July 2025
Noun
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Narrated by Brown, the story centers Wash’s 19th-century odyssey from the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born to the Canadian city and beyond.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
23 July 2025
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If all of these things seem correct, a historian would then look into other documents, such as previous appraisals or the plantation’s accounting ledger, which might be housed in the same collection or might be in another archive.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
15 July 2025
Noun
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Aside from the roses, Garten's garden also features hidden garden paths, tables, and chairs for chatting, as well as areas for growing fresh herbs and vegetables.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Aug. 2025
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Allow your garden predators to keep pests under control.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Rooms upstairs lean toward palatial, transporting you to what could easily be a countryside manor.—
Rooksana Hossenally,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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Each character can be assigned to dig up the grounds of the manor, peer through its library stacks and even conduct dark rituals in its chapel.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Noun
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Located in Borden, Indiana, Starlight Distillery is an offshoot of a farm, orchard, and winery owned and operated by the Huber family.—
David Thomas Tao,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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Small shrines and steeples loom over its streets, which straddle a hilltop overlooking a pastoral expanse of olive orchards.—
Matt Bradley,
NBC news,
18 July 2025
Noun
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The hacienda-style home is swathed in vines and surrounded by immaculate landscaping with native plants and blooming, vibrant flowers.—
Emma Reynolds,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Or, upgrade to expansive suites, haciendas, or villas with sweeping views of the Sea of Cortez, infinity-edge hot tubs, or private plunge pools.—
Emily Hochberg,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, as the Highland Clearances violently removed tenant-farmer Scots from their crofts, the more communal, indoor instruments all but disappeared.—
Elena Saavedra Buckley,
New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2025
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Living on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967.—
John McPhee,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2022
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“Smallholding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smallholding. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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